| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1955/10/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is to let you know that work is fast progressing on the translation of the Guerric Christmas | Yes |
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| | 1955/11/08 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter of October 24. My wife and I are happy to hear that the translation | Yes |
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| | 1955/11/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | On the Eve of the First Sunday in Advent, I am happy to be able to send you the translation of Bl. | Yes |
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| | 1955/12/03 | TL[x] | to Merton | The translations arrived and we can now more definitely plan for an edition. Yet, I would like | Yes |
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| | 1955/12/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have waited for the typescript of the Sermons to be ready before writing to you. | Yes |
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| | 1956/02/05 | TALS[x] | from Merton | My new life as novice master is a busy one and I am more often in the woods than at the typewriter. | Yes |
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| | 1956/03/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have not forgotten that you asked me the address of the Benedictines who publish Zodiaque. | Yes |
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| | 1956/07/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Today I am mailing back to the Kentucky University Library the most interesting "Manual of Zen" | Yes |
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| | 1956/08/31 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you for your note. I was so glad to hear you would be able to get over soon. It will be | Yes |
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| | 1956/11/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you so much for the proof. The prayer looks very fine, and I have had to make very few | Yes |
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| | 1956/11/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Needless to say I feel immensely indebted to both of you for the beautiful work you did | Yes |
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| | 1957/03/no? | HNS[x] | from Merton | The proofs are very attractive. I have corrected this one set and am keeping the others. | Yes |
| [1956 or 1957, published letter as approximately March 1957 / simply dated "Tuesday"] |
| | 1957/08/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Immediately after my letter to Mrs Hammer went out in the mail the other day, your <u>Dialogue</u> | Yes |
| |
| | 1957/08/24 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter and for the picture and article which accompanied it. I was very | Yes |
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| | 1957/10/15 | HPCS[x] | to Merton | This was a revelation, the perfect Cistercian architecture. Soon it will be restored and then | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer - see original in archives classification Sub-Section C.3, manuscript proofs of "Art and Worship" - verso: L'abbaye du Thoronet] after restoration will be "destroyed by the tourists" |
| | 1958/03/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The Crucifix is very impressive in its hieratic simplicity. I find the quiet color scheme | Yes |
| |
| | 1958/04/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Ordinarily, all the authorities on liturgy (in the sense of rubrics) insist that the altar cross | |
| [not in published letters] |
| | 1958/05/02 | HLS[x] | from Merton | When I wrote yesterday I may have given the impression that the only convenient time for you to come | Yes |
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| | 1958/05/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the pictures- they are just the kind of thing I am looking for, and I like St | Yes |
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| | 1958/07/29 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is the proof of "The Unquiet Conscience". I have only made one fussy change, | Yes |
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| | 1958/08/14 | TLS | to Merton | I found your paper to be most stimulating and I hope you will permit me to attach a few notes which | Yes |
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| | 1958/10/14 | HPCS | to Merton | We had to stay longer here than we expected. I had to do a cross much bigger than the one I brought | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer - verso: "La Cathédral - Pillier des Anges [-] L'Ange avec la Lance] Council of Europe |
| | 1959/01/02 | transcript | from Merton | The 17th will be fine. We will be expecting you two weeks from today. Meanwhile I shall return | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/01/10 | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your card - I will expect you and Victor next Saturday, a week from today. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/02/10 | transcript | from Merton | After reading over the Fiedler ms. I find myself in a difficult position. The material is extremely | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/03/06 | transcript | from Merton | Here is the proof. I need not say that as usual I am very pleased with it. The uncial will be | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/03/16 | transcript | from Merton | Perfectly all right about the copyright. I think it is safe to let it go, and of course that will | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/04/28 | transcript | from Merton | It is already a week since the "all-memorable day" of my visit to Lexington and to the Stamperia del | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/04/28 | transcript | from Merton | It is already a week since the "all-memorable day" of my visit to Lexington and to the Stamperia del | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/05/02 | TALS | to Merton | ever since you, looking at the triptych, have asked me who is the figure crowning Christ | Yes |
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| | 1959/05/14 (#01) | TAL[d] | from Merton | I have not rushed to reply to your letter first because I have been a little busy, and second | Yes |
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| | 1959/05/14 (#02) | TAL[d] | from Merton | I have not rushed to reply to your letter first because I have been a little busy, ans [sic] second | Yes |
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| | 1959/05/14 (#03) | TL[d] | from Merton | I wrote that first page without keeping a carbon, but I am getting someone to copy it because I am | Yes |
| [second page of letter - does not fit with other drafts] |
| | 1959/06/01 | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and the proofs - I am returning these with a couple of corrections. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/06/13 | transcript | from Merton | Your letter reached me this morning. I think it is a very good idea to include the story about | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/06/18 | transcript | from Merton | I know this is the end of the Abbot-Milido story, but I do not know if this follows the page I sent | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/06/23 | transcript | from Merton | Here are the proofs again. I hope you got Abbot Milido all right - that "awful sight." I am glad we | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/06/24 | transcript | from Merton | Here are the last of the proofs, with one correction. By the way do you think you could give us some | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/06/no? (#01) | transcript | from Merton | Here they are. I think everything is correct. So I am getting them back to you with the only | Yes |
| [copied from published letters / only dated 1959 but placed by editors between June and July 1959 letters] |
| | 1959/06/no? (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I am terribly sorry to hear you are ill. I shall miss seeing and Carolyn tomorrow, but that is not | Yes |
| [copied from published letters / only labelled Friday but placed by editors between June and July 1959 letters] |
| | 1959/07/14? | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your welcome note. I am glad the printing is finished and still more glad that the work | Yes |
| [copied from published letters / dated Tuesday, July 14, estimated to be 1959] |
| | 1959/07/30 | transcript | from Merton | Here is a text beginning with "E." I have cooked it up a bit, but I think it will do: Erat in Scete | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/08/12 | transcript | from Merton | Here are some off prints of the Pasternak article. Some are for you and the rest for the library. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/08/19 | HLS | to Merton | thank you for your very kind letter - which was rewarding. However, let us not forget that things | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer] |
| | 1959/08/24? | transcript | from Merton | The prospectus is perfectly all right - go ahead with it as you please. I haven't heard from all | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - year estimated] |
| | 1959/09/10 | transcript | from Merton | I wanted you and Carolyn to see this copy of a letter from Bob Lax in which he gives | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/09/18 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter of Sept 10; with the photostat of your friend Lax's letter. | Yes |
| |
| | 1959/09/24 | transcript | from Merton | It was good to get your letter and Carolyn's books. I am happy to hear about the exhibit. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/12/08 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your kind letter and the photos which we really cherish. Please let us know | Yes |
| |
| | 1959/12/12 | transcript | from Merton | Thank you for your note of the other day. I have as yet no news when Laughlin will be here, | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1959/12/25? | transcript | from Merton | We have put up the large crucifix in our novitiate chapel and the smaller one in the chapel | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/01/04 | transcript | from Merton | In this short note I want to make to you two large proposals. First of all, as a possibility | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/01/07 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for your kind and good letter. I am - and of course Carolyn is too - very happy that | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer] |
| | 1960/01/08 | HNS | to Merton | I have read the [indecipherable word..] and I think it would not matter if, for a while, it remains | Yes |
| [at the bottom of 1960/01/07 letter - handwritten note from Victor Hammer] |
| | 1960/01/30 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | enclosed find two copies of the first two pages - one for you one back for us - and I shall continue | Yes |
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| | 1960/01/30 (#02) | other | | WALLS: RES SANCTAE / RES SACRAE [-] Among the res sanctae / walls are especially stressed. | Yes |
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| | 1960/02/05 | transcript | from Merton | Here are the first proofs with one correction. I am happy that this project is going ahead and that | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/02/08 | HLS | to Merton | The red in the proofs are your underscored words. Of course capital letters at the beginning of the | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/02/09 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for your letter and the proofs[.] As to p. 7 - I will see how the next paragraph comes out | Yes |
| [on verso of 1960/02/08 letter] |
| | 1960/02/15 | transcript | from Merton | It took quite a long time for this to reach me - I only got it this morning. I do not think we | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/02/22 | TLS | to Merton | I have now added a dash after each paragraph since I did not want to indent them, and I think there | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/02/23 | transcript | from Merton | In this game of spiritual tennis I am returning the ball promptly. I have taken advantage of your | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/03/20 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | If the weather isn't too bad next Saturday we plan to come and see you. So we leave it to the | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/03/20 (#02) | other | | WHAT OUGHT I TO DO ? [-] Sayings of the Desert Fathers / from the collection in Migne's Latin | Yes |
| [advertisement for <i>What ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers</i>, "From the Collection in Migne's Latin Patrology" - translated by Merton] |
| | 1960/03/22? | transcript | from Merton | I just got your note. I will be expecting you Saturday unless it snows cats and dogs. But let us | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/03/26 | transcript | from Merton | Your special delivery reached me this morning - is there such a thing as air mail from Lexington | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/04/07 | transcript | from Merton | At our last enjoyable meeting recently I forgot to mention that I had once again changed my mind | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/04/12 | transcript | from Merton | All I can say is that the meaning of the cross and the Resurrection is just that. Death is destroyed | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/04/13 | transcript | from Merton | Just after I mailed my letter yesterday I received your note about the copyright. The copyright line | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/05/04 | transcript | from Merton | Please forgive the red ribbon, I am trying to use it up. I am just writing to say that I imagine | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/05/11 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | thank you for your letter. The book will be finished today; and Isaac of Ninive is most interesting | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/05/11 (#02) | HLS | to Merton | yes God and beauty do exist, but as soon as one tries to explain them they disappear as if they | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/05/16 | transcript | from Merton | Here is the poem. It is perhaps not long enough, but rather than add useless lines I think it would | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/05/25 | transcript | from Merton | Did you get the poem all right? I hope so, and hope that it is satisfactory. I received from Geo | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/05/26 | HLS | to Merton | of course the poem is fine and we like it very much. We even want your permission to print it for | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer] |
| | 1960/05/no | transcript | from Merton | I have made two corrections and am keeping the second set of proofs - assuming that was your | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/06/09 | HLS | to Merton | here are two proofs. I have to cut a new initial. Since this is a companion to the Desert Fathers | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/06/10 | transcript | from Merton | What was my astonishment recently in Louisville to see on the front page of the newspaper a picture | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/06/13 | transcript | from Merton | I agree with you that the way the poem is printed on the yellow paper is altogether better, | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/06/27 | transcript | from Merton | I do not know what plans you may have about coming over: it is just possible that this may cross | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/06/28 | transcript | from Merton | As I expected, our letters crossed. The cover is very very fine, It [sic] just fits the book, but is | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/07/20 | transcript | from Merton | Your note said that you would be back Friday so I am answering it now to say I hope to see you soon. | Yes |
| [to Carolyn and Victor Hammer - copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/07/27 | transcript | from Merton | Fine - I look forward to seeing you both Saturday at noon. Would it be possible for Carolyn to take | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/08/07 | TALS | to Merton | I am returning your paper which I have carefully read twice. I think it very good and since you | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/08/09 | HLS | to Merton | thank you so much for sending the text of the broad side and the letter from Rome - we enjoyed both. | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/08/17 | transcript | from Merton | Could you and Carolyn think about possibly coming over on Sept 3rd, or the 1st or 2nd? Or else | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/09/05 | transcript | from Merton | I would have written sooner but I have not found it easy to untangle all the threads | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/09/15 | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your note. It was as I thought. And I have an added complication, but I think it will | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/10/17 | transcript | from Merton | Your letter with the proof arrived last week, about the 11th I think. It was postmarked on the 10th, | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/11/05 | TLS | to Merton | Unexpectedly we have to go to Cincinnati on the 12. of this month, and since Carolyn cannot manage | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/11/09 | transcript | from Merton | Your letter arrived this morning. It is too bad you will not be coming this Saturday. But then | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/11/no? | transcript | from Merton | I saw Dr and Mrs Wygal the other day and they expressed a wish to come down Saturday so as to see | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/12/01 | transcript | from Merton | It was certainly very pleasant to have you over here the other day and I enjoyed it immensely, | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/12/05 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your nice, really sweet, letter, we are so happy. I am answering immediately in order | Yes |
| |
| | 1960/12/07 | transcript | from Merton | Your good letter just arrived. I think the chests are a good idea. I shall certainly need two. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/12/12 | HLS | to Merton | enclosed in a separate Envelope perhaps, are your Christmas cards, 25 or so. I hope you can use | Yes |
| [see also typed signed note from Carolyn at the bottom of this handwritten letter of the same date from Victor] |
| | 1960/12/23 | transcript | from Merton | I expect a note from day to day saying when you will come, but any one of those days is all right, | Yes |
| [to Carolyn and Victor Hammer - copied from published letters] |
| | 1960/12/27 | transcript | from Merton | By now Dave Rowland will have told you of his rather harrowing afternoon here. The table is very | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/02/02 | transcript | from Merton | Having been very busy, and on retreat, and also sick since I last saw you, I have not yet got around | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/02/09 | transcript | from Merton | Here it is. I have done by best to promote useful knowledge. You must now be loyal to the tradition | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/02/20 | transcript | from Merton | Would a week from Saturday, March 4th, be a good day for you to come over? The talk would be, | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/02/20 | transcript | from Merton | Would a week from Saturday, March 4th, be a good day for you to come over? The talk would be, | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/03/30 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for sending the New Directions edition of the Sayings. I was so touched by the kind words | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer] |
| | 1961/04/10 | transcript | from Merton | It was a pity you could not get over here Saturday, it was such a lovely afternoon, but I will be | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/04/no | transcript | from Merton | The novice whom I deputed to take down the crucifix and make the measurements has done so. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - only year of 1961 stated, but published between April 10 and May 24, 1961 letters] |
| | 1961/05/24 | transcript | from Merton | I have finally rewritten the bit on Sophia and here is the ms. It is a little long for a broadside | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/05/26 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter and the poem. We can't say more for the moment, because we are so | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer - previously mis-dated 1961/October/26 (Roman numeral looks like an X but seems to be a V)] |
| | 1961/06/09 | transcript | from Merton | I was very happy with your good note and glad you liked <i>Hagia Sophia</i> as I thought you | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/06/18 | HLS | to Merton | This was a crowded week and I missed completely to tell you that we could not come yesterday. | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer] |
| | 1961/06/21 | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your good note: the 15th of July will be fine. I wondered if you had gone on a trip | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/07/11 | transcript | from Merton | By all means, I am expecting you Saturday. Bring your friend along. There will be no one else | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/07/24 | HLS | to Merton | here are the proofs and there is only one question on my part and you would have to decide: | Yes |
| |
| | 1961/07/27 | transcript | from Merton | This looks wonderful. I am very definitely against the dots at the end, and think one period is | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/08/19 | HLS | to Merton | I am now working on the drawing for the print of Hagia Sophia which will be on the first page. | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer] |
| | 1961/08/22 | transcript | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter. I am happy to hear about the drawing and "no industrial enterprise." | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/11/02 | transcript | from Merton | The best times for me would be November 17-18 but failing that the 10th and 11th. If those do not | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/11/09 | transcript | from Merton | Fine, I will expect you at lunch time Friday 17th about 11:30? Will I be able to read while you work | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/11/22 | transcript | from Merton | I have come across a most suitable quotation that might go under the woodcut, except that it is | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/12/19 | transcript | from Merton | I was very sorry to hear Carolyn had to go to the hospital but on the other hand it was good news | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1961/12/20 | HLS | to Merton | I suppose you never got the letter I wrote you about 10 days ago when Carolyn came back from | Yes |
| |
| | 1961/12/23 | transcript | from Merton | Many thanks for the proof. I think it will do very well in the book. It is very simple and austere. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/01/18 | transcript | from Merton | I was so sorry to hear that both you and Carolyn had been ill. It was a pity you and I and J. could | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/01/21 | TLS | to Merton | thank you for sending us your notes on the nuclear bomb. - About a year after the first one was | Yes |
| |
| | 1962/01/25? | transcript | from Merton | As for brainwashing, the term is used very loosely about almost anything. Strict technical | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #44b - copy from bound set] |
| | 1962/01/28 | transcript | from Merton | As we came out of our retreat I found in the pile of mail your proof and letter. First of all | Yes |
| [same letter, but more content, as Cold War Letters #44b, dated January 25, 1962 - copy from published text from <i>The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer</i>] |
| | 1962/02/13 | transcript | from Merton | March 3 will be find as far as I am concerned, and I hope the weather will be nice. If it is not we | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/02/no? | transcript | from Merton | March 3 will be find as far as I am concerned, and I hope the weather will be nice. If it is not we | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no date but placed in February 1962 in published letters] |
| | 1962/05/09 | TALS | to Merton | enclosed find a proof of an unfinished metal-cut which I attempted to make for the poem because | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer] |
| | 1962/05/10 (#01) | transcript | from Merton | More and more I see that it is not the moral principles which are at stake, but more radically, | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #71 - copy from bound set, taken from letter of May 10, 1962] |
| | 1962/05/10 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I was glad to get your letter, and Carolyn's card about Jonathan Greene came at the same time. | Yes |
| [full copy of the same letter as Cold War Letters #71 dated May, 1962 - copy from published letters] |
| | 1962/05/29 | transcript | from Merton | I look forward very much to seeing you and Carolyn this Saturday, June 2, at the regular time. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/06/26 | transcript | from Merton | I am glad to hear that the printing is finished and that you are ready to bring the opus over. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/07/23 | transcript | from Merton | This looks really fine. I have hastily inserted translations for the two added verses. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/07/26 | transcript | from Merton | Here are the final proofs. I tried to carefully spot every little slip, and I find one must look | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/08/22 | transcript | from Merton | Now there is <i>no</i> difference in time. We are on the same time as you - I will expect you | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/09/24 | HPCS | to Merton | As I have your image with me we have not lost touch with you. Carolyn recovered completely | Yes |
| [note from Carolyn at the bottom of a postcard of the same date from Victor - verso: color photograph of a mosaic - "Monreale Cathedral - Christ Driving Money changers from the Temple"] |
| | 1962/10/27 | HPCS | to Merton | just out of the caves we are happy to be in God's Light again. But it was necessary for me to see | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer - verso: color photograph of cave drawings at the Grotte de Lascaux in France] |
| | 1962/11/21 | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for all your cards from Europe, especially the guards from Venice which I have on the wall | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/11/24 | transcript | from Merton | I was glad to get your card this morning and to learn that you are back. It is perhaps late to plan | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1962/12/25? | transcript | from Merton | I think of you on this Christmas morning and will remember you both as I go down to Mass. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - only dated December 25, no year, but placed in 1962 in published letters] |
| | 1963/02/09? | transcript | from Merton | I think of you on this Christmas morning and will remember you both as I go down to Mass. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no date but placed in February 9, 1963 in published letters] |
| | 1963/03/03 | transcript | from Merton | It was a good thing you did not come down in February, it would have been much too cold. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1963/03/04? | transcript | from Merton | I too have been thinking about seeing you and Carolyn again though today the weather is hardly | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no year listed but placed in published letters in 1963] |
| | 1963/03/19? | transcript | from Merton | I am so glad you are coming Saturday - and hope it will be nice. Does Carolyn have in the library | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no month or year listed (just Tuesday 19th) but placed in published letters in March of 1963] |
| | 1963/04/07 | transcript | from Merton | You probably realize the quandary I am in. I just got a letter from the President of the U. | Yes |
| [to Victor and Carolyn Hammer - copied from published letters] |
| | 1963/04/no? | transcript | from Merton | I am so glad you will be able to "represent" me to "make me present" at commencement and receive | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no date but placed after letter of April 7, 1963 in published book and references first Saturday in May in the future] |
| | 1963/06/07 | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your note, and I am especially grateful for Victor's Trappistic exploit as my secret | Yes |
| [to Victor and Carolyn Hammer - copied from published letters] |
| | 1963/07/16 | transcript | from Merton | Not having heard anything from J. I presume he is not going to come down in July, and I am going | Yes |
| [to Victor and Carolyn Hammer - copied from published letters] |
| | 1963/08/16 | transcript | from Merton | I was sorry that Carolyn's mother was ill and that you could not come last month. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1963/09/04 | transcript | from Merton | I was sure I had written today Saturday 7th would be fine, but in any case I sent a telegram today | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1963/09/15 | transcript | from Merton | I am in the hospital in Louisville with a cervical disk, besides bursitis and arthritis. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1963/09/29 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for your kind letter of Sept. 15th. We were very sorry to hear about your sufferings but | Yes |
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| | 1963/10/03 | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter. I am back in the monastery and getting along fairly well. It will be | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1963/10/31 | transcript | from Merton | This is just a reminder that our monastery timetable is changed and I will expect you at 11.15 | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1963/11/09 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I shudder at the thought of attempting a long didactic poem on art. Yet who knows, someday it may | Yes |
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| | 1963/11/no? | transcript | from Merton | Here is Victor's text | Yes |
| [to Victor and Carolyn Hammer - copied from published letters - year only, but placed in published letters between October 31st and November 9th, 1963] |
| | 1963/12/13 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Carolyn wrote about Stanley Morrison and his suggestion to paint a Resurrection. I am already | Yes |
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| | 1963/12/13 (#02) | other | | BEQUEST [-] The truth was found already long ago, it bound the noble spirits into one | |
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| | 1963/12/18 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter: I find you much more scrupulous about the treatment of religious | Yes |
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| | 1964/01/01 | HLS | to Merton | I have read your paper on Green's book again. Since I don't know the book your remarks about it | Yes |
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| | 1964/01/03? | transcript | from Merton | It is warmer today and it may be warm next week. Why not gamble on Saturday the 11th as a good | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - dated "Fri. 3rd" and listed as January 3, 1964 in the published letters] |
| | 1964/03/10 | HLS | to Merton | the 21st would be fine but in case of bad weather, either snow or rain, we would not come and you | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/13? | transcript | from Merton | I will look forward to seeing you and Carolyn on the 21st, a week from tomorrow. If you bring Dr | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no year but dated 1964 in the published letters] |
| | 1964/03/28? | transcript | from Merton | I look forward to seeing you and Carolyn on the 4th of April at the same time and hope the weather | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - dated only "Friday" but recorded as March 28, 1964 in published letters] |
| | 1964/04/11? | transcript | from Merton | I was not sure if you and Carolyn would come today, it would have been a fine day. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no year but placed in 1964 in published letters] |
| | 1964/04/14? | transcript | from Merton | Your note came today and I will expect you soon on the 18th - next Saturday. I hope the weather will | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - dated "Monday", but placed as April 14, 1964 in the published letters] |
| | 1964/06/16 | HLS | to Merton | Carolyn gave me your letter you wrote to the Library. Though the 27th would be possible, we must | Yes |
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| | 1964/06/20 | transcript | from Merton | I am sorry to hear you are having an operation and that on this account we will not be able to get | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1964/08/03 | HLS | to Merton | now, with the help of a magnifying glass I am able to write. The operation went according to | Yes |
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| | 1964/08/05 | TAL[c] | from Merton | It is good to see your handwriting again. This is a sign that things are going well and that you | Yes |
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| | 1964/08/08 | HLS | to Merton | enclosed find a letter of Lexi Joanelius that might interest you. We wonder who that martyr was | Yes |
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| | 1964/08/12 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Perhaps your hernia operation is all over by now. I hope so, and hope that it has been successful. | Yes |
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| | 1964/10/30 | HLS | to Merton | today is the first day that I don't feel so weak as it did until now. That is why I couldn't face | Yes |
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| | 1964/11/03 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I was so pleased to hear from you and to know that you are at least fairly well, that though I am no | Yes |
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| | 1964/11/17 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | we were so touched by the poem, it moved us to tears. Thank you, that is all, and the only thing | Yes |
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| | 1964/11/17 (#02) | other | | Otupatersplendorisdatorluminis [-] adtegaudenspretorrestitutolumine | |
| [Latin poem written for Hammer by Merton - written as a page proof for how it would be printed - published in the <i>Collected Poems</i> as "A Prayer of Thanksgiving Written for Victor Hammer"] |
| | 1964/12/04 | TL[c] | from Merton | Yesterday I asked Father Abbot if I could perhaps have an exceptional permission to get over | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/09? | transcript | from Merton | Fine: I shall plan to see you on the 16th, a week from today. I hope that everything will work out | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no date but placed in published letters as December 9, 1964] |
| | 1965/01/07 | HLS | to Merton | I have read the 3 papers you left with us when we had you here; and I have read "From Pilgrimage | Yes |
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| | 1965/01/09 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. I am glad you liked the "Pilgrimage" piece and I think you are right about | Yes |
| [incorrectly dated by Merton as 1964/01/09] |
| | 1965/01/20 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | It is now certain that in April there will be an exhibition of my work at the North Carolina Museum | Yes |
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| | 1965/01/20 (#02) | other | | The anonymous craftsman of the middle ages existed in his work. He was admitted to a guild only | Yes |
| [Hammer notes in letter of the same date that the enclosed are "pp. 13-14 of the <u>Concern</u>, i.e. the chapter: On the cross roads."] |
| | 1965/02/03 | HLS | to Merton | with your words you have silently embraced me, I feel the touch of your hand on my shoulder, so kind | Yes |
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| | 1965/03/21 | HLS | to Merton | I am sorry to bother you again with an urgent reply -- here is Maritain's letter, or rather his | Yes |
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| | 1965/03/24 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. I was glad to get it because I had been thinking about you and wondering | Yes |
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| | 1965/04/18 | transcript | from Merton | It is Easter morning and your Rood cross which has been veiled during Lent (according to our rule) | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1965/06/23 | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is an uncorrected carbon copy of the complete Chuang Tzu ms. I will need it back before too | Yes |
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| | 1965/07/03 | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is something that might interest you and Carolyn: not to print necessarily (though you are | Yes |
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| | 1965/07/03 | transcript | from Merton | Here is something that might interest you and Carolyn: not to print necessarily (though you are | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1965/07/no? | transcript | from Merton | I would not call these few the best. But as I do not have the complete ms., I cannot make | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1965/08/28 | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your very good letter about the Symbolism notes. I knew you would like them. | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1965/09/26 | HLS | to Merton | It seems to me strange that even you have missed the meaning of the passage in the Vulgate; | Yes |
| [from Carolyn and Victor Hammer] |
| | 1965/10/22 | HLS | to Merton | We miss your word since we are anxious to hear from you again. In fact you owe me a response | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/02 | transcript | from Merton | Today I am sending you a copy of Chuang Tzu. I certainly got this one out fast. I have no doubt | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1965/11/05 | transcript | from Merton | I spoke to Father Abbot yesterday about the possibility of his making an exception and permitting | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1966/02/10 | HLS | to Merton | now it is warmer and I am happy that I have no longer to think of you suffering the cold. Of course | Yes |
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| | 1966/02/13 | transcript | from Merton | Not only do I like 'Pebbles' very much but in many ways I think it is going to be your most | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1966/03/01 | transcript | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter. I would be glad to discuss the question of your book and if it should | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1966/03/no? | transcript | from Merton | I hope to get out of the hospital tomorrow (Saturday) - The operation was quite successful | Yes |
| [to Victor and Carolyn Hammer - copied from published letters - no date but placed in published letters between March 1st and April 21st, 1966] |
| | 1966/04/21 | transcript | from Merton | I am returning your "pebbles" as you requested. Hope you and feeling better again and can get along | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1966/05/06? | transcript | from Merton | I am sorry I could not come over with J and Nicanor Parra. Too much riding in a car is perhaps still | Yes |
| [to Victor and Carolyn Hammer - copied from published letters - no year on letter but dated 1966 in published letters] |
| | 1966/05/29 | HLS | to Merton | we think of you and wonder how you really are. Perhaps still in the Infirmary? Let us know please. | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/06? | transcript | from Merton | Many thanks for your good note. I was glad to hear from you and the news that you consider coming | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no year on letter but dated 1966 in published letters] |
| | 1966/06/22 | HLS | to Merton | Here is a translation of Li Po's poem, please send it back when you are through. | Yes |
| |
| | 1966/07/02 | transcript | from Merton | As soon as I went to the book this morning it fell right open at - our old favorite, the two elders | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1966/07/11 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I am returning "The Road to Shu is hard" after too long a delay. Forgive me. I have been behind | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/18 | HLS | to Merton | I was so happy to get your letter and am so glad to know that you are well and balanced. | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/25 | transcript | from Merton | Since the philosophical background of Buddhist thought is entirely different from our thought | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1966/08/29 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your note and for Lexi's good letter which I return herewith. Yes, I knew that | Yes |
| |
| | 1966/09/20 | transcript | from Merton | I have tried my hand at translating the Goethe quotation: it is enclosed. I don't know if the result | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1966/10/02 | HLS | to Merton | thank you for the translation, we will try it. In the meantime I have changed the word 'good taste' | Yes |
| |
| | 1966/11/25 | HLS | to Merton | May we use these lines of yours for a Christmas message? Thank you. Got your several articles | Yes |
| [includes the following note by Merton for card: "One light, one ray and it will be the angels' Spring: [-] One flash, one glance upon the shiny pond, and then [-] asperges me! Sweet wilderness, and lo! [-] We are redeemed!"] |
| | 1966/11/26? | transcript | from Merton | Certainly you may use my verse on your card. Delighted! Would it be possible to get a dozen cards | Yes |
| [copied from published letters - no year on letter but dated 1966 in published letters] |
| | 1966/11/27 | transcript | from Merton | Yesterday I wrote you a note and then by mistake put it in the wrong box. It may have got lost, so I | Yes |
| [copied from published letters] |
| | 1966/12/21 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | yesterday I came back from the hospital, much improved by two pints of blood transfused into my | Yes |
| |
| | 1966/12/21 (#02) | HLS | to Merton | when I wrote to you today I forgot to ask you to tell me the date on which you were operated on your | Yes |
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| | 1966/12/24 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thank very much for your two notes. I was very glad to hear from you and to know you were out | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/15 | HLS | to Merton | thank you for sending me the papers - I enjoyed several of them very much, especially that on | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/24 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of the other day. I was very pleased to hear from you and to receive | Yes |
| |
| | 1967/06/02 | HLS | to Merton | Do you know Herrigel's book on Zen? Gilbert Highet speaks about it in his book 'talents and | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/16 | TL[c] | from Merton | It was very good to hear from you again. Yes, I would very much like to come and see the book too. | Yes |
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| | undated/no/no | other | | THOMAS MERTON : HAGIA SOPHIA [-] Lexington / Kentucky / Stamperia del Santuccio | |
| [hand pressed colophon only for "Hagia Sophia" - copyright 1962] |
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